[thelist] [OT] million monkeys (was: Spam traps)

Adam Squier asquier at amcc.com
Fri Apr 19 10:36:01 CDT 2002


Rob Smith wrote:
>
>  a bunch of random letters will make a real word in the
> end...
>
> kind of like a million monkeys hacking away in a room full of type writers
> will eventually get Shakespeare?
>

Which has shown to be false. Someone actually set this up. They said it would
take a million years, 24 hours a day, for a million monkeys to come up with "To
be, or not to be, that is the question."

<tip type="Photoshop" author="Adam Squier">
Photoshop 7's new healing brush needs pixels to work. That is, you can't use it
like the clone stamp tool to clone from one layer onto an empty layer.
</tip>



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